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Should I ship a Futuristic Mystery Dungeon?
Mystery Dungeon + Futuristic
Only 18 developers shipped a Futuristic Mystery Dungeon in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, FANTASIAN Neo Dimension, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150 in the last 2 years and $270 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 4 / 10 build. 8 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 5% | $750k (exactly $749,850) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue up 170% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Mystery Dungeon; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, RPG
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $49.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with First-Person, 2D, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $49.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 528 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 9 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Mystery Dungeon with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + JRPGStrong odds
- + TacticalStrong odds
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + RomanceFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + PhysicsFair
Comparable games
FANTASIAN Neo Dimension 2024 · $750k 
The Land Beneath Us 2024 · $103k 
Frame - Portals on Steroids 2023 · $18k 
Eclipse 2021 · $16k 
Super Geisha Neon 2022 · $5.1k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | FANTASIAN Neo Dimension | $49.99 | 500 76% | 15k | $750k (exactly $749,850) | Mistwalker Corporation | |
| | The Land Beneath Us | older | $14.99 | 230 79% | 6.9k | $103k (exactly $103,431) | FairPlay Studios |
| | Frame - Portals on Steroids | older | $16.99 | 35 91% | 1.1k | $18k (exactly $17,840) | MechanicsDriven |
| | Eclipse | older | $2.99 | 173 68% | 5.2k | $16k (exactly $15,518) | MadRock |
| | Super Geisha Neon | older | $8.99 | 19 84% | 570 | $5.1k (exactly $5,124) | HugePixel |
 | The Magic World | older | $10.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $3.6k (exactly $3,627) | Flame-Dragons, Dmitriy Belonovskiy |
 | Deleted | older | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | EpiXR Games UG |
 | SUBMERSIBLE | $8.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | CJB Games | |
 | SaveShe | $69.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $2.1k (exactly $2,100) | shibahuax | |
 | Purple Noise Echo | older | $9.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | Ukioq |
 | Theralite | $10.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $2.0k (exactly $1,978) | DualBitz | |
 | The Unknown | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | GOGOIO Games | |
 | Typomon Hunter | $11.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Esoteric Games | |
 | BlackHoleMaze | $8.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | PENGHAO | |
 | King Of The Dark Circuit | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | SavicNode | |
 | NULL | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Merelab | |
 | The Haunting of Ptolemy | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Lee E. Powell |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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